Market Cross And Stocks

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NZ 11 SW NEWSHAM VILLAGE STREET (south side)

2/107 Market cross and stocks

GV II

Cross and stocks. C16 cross restored 1828 and 1935, stocks 1828. Ashlar sandstone cross. Wrought-iron stocks. Cross: 3 square steps supporting octagonal base, with monolithic tapering shaft and C20 cap inscribed "RSTD 1828 1935". Metal spike on top, braced in position by 4 brackets.

Immediately to east, pink granite boulder on the top of which are wrought- iron shackles, with hinge and lock, incorporating 3 larger holes and one smaller hole. Newsham had an important market in Tudor and Stuart times. T Bulmer, History, Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), p 468: "Near the end of the street is an old stone cross, which was repaired by subscription in 1828; at the same time, the old wooden stocks, which stood close by, were replaced by iron ones; and this obsolete instrument of correction is still in good preservation".

Listing NGR: NZ1058810012

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0228 IOE Records taken by Alan Bradley; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Alan Bradley. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project